Tag: Project

What is an Open Source Office Every commerical company has a engineering organization. Commerical engineering standard practice is to develop everything in private. However, times have changed and every company has some open source use and/or development going on. The use of open source without formal engineering support causes an unnecessary tug of war for […]

Previous articles on Open Source First have been more strategy than recipe. You need a clear, easy to understand plan for making the case for an upstream project to your manager. To help you with your boss, I have rewritten the How to use Public Projects to Build Products article into a list of ten steps. These […]

I have broken down below a simple six part outline of what a technology platform organization is and how to run it. The platform organization is the bottom of the technology stack. The top of the stack will differ from the platform, in that, it will have external customers and more focus on product design and the user interface. However, […]

Project to Product I want to focus on one specific aspect of project to product development from the Open Source First article. Coordinating upstream (publicly licensed) and downstream (private non-licensed) development work. In any organization that is developing and supporting software, there are some number of engineers that work on public projects. It is a […]